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Intel Completes McAfee Acquisition

Posted by Roblimo on from the are-we-secure-yet? dept.

angry tapir writes "Intel has completed its US$7.68 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee, the chip maker has announced. The all-cash deal makes Intel a security industry powerhouse, giving it a broad range of consumer and enterprise security products. Intel had been working to get the deal approved by US and European Union regulators since it was announced last August. The European Commission, in particular, had expressed concerns that Intel would give McAfee special treatment when it came to its processors and chipsets, locking other security vendors out of the technology."

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  1. Future chips will have built-in anti-virus? by rs1n · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm curious why Intel would be interested in acquiring an anti-virus company. What assets would be useful to a chip-maker? Do they plan to integrate anti-virus into their chips? Or does having access to McAfee's assets somehow give Intel insight into how to improve the security of personal computing via specially designed chips? Does anyone have any idea why this was a "good move" for Intel?

    1. Re:Future chips will have built-in anti-virus? by thinc · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I work for a McAfee reseller and can tell you that they are more than just AV. They spent the last several years making a lot of acquisitions. Now they offer enterprise firewall, IDS/IPS, data loss prevention, endpoint encryption, content filtering, and mobile device security, among others. Now I'm not gonna say who's products are better or worse since I'm obviously biased but McAfee definitely is more than just AV and has a big presence in the enterprise.

  2. Speaking as an admin ... by khasim · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought the same - doesn't McAfee's software suck?

    Speaking as an admin who is stuck supporting McAfee's ePO for a few thousand workstations ... yes, yes it does.

    Unfortunately, all of the other vendors also suck.

    And STILL McAfee doesn't have a bootable CD with their product on it.

    And their "enterprise" distribution methodology sucks bandwidth (why send the ENTIRE 100MB+ file to each distribution point instead of just a diff file).

  3. Re:I still don't get it... by jrumney · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why McAfee?

    McAfee was found to be the best option for keeping customers on the CPU upgrade cycle.